150+ Inspirational New Year Quotes for 2024
As the clock nears midnight and we stand on the brink of a brand-new year, who isn’t filled with a sense of hopeful possibility?
I’ve always felt that the New Year is like a reset button, offering us a fresh start to get it right, chase our dreams, and live a little better.
That’s why I’ve gathered my favorite 170 short New Year quotes to inspire and motivate you as you enter into 2024.
I’ve created some images with quotes to highlight some of my favorite sayings to make it easy to share.
Inspirational New Year Quotes
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
“Out with the old, in with the new.” – Unknown
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” – G.K. Chesterton
“A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreams.” – Unknown
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” – Joey Adams
“Ring out the old, ring in the new.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
“The New Year replenishes all the joys in your life and helps to keep your spirit glowing.” – Unknown
“A new year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? It’s up to us to write it.” – Unknown
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughn
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise, when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.” – W.H. Auden
“The start of every year takes you a step closer to the attainment of your dreams.” – Unknown
“The new year is like a blank canvas. You hold the paintbrush to your own destiny.” – Unknown
“The road ahead may be difficult, but a new year means new possibilities.” – Unknown
“The year is new, the hopes are new, the aspirations are new, but my warm wishes for happiness and prosperity remain the same for you and your family. Happy New Year.” – Unknown
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“This is the year to ignite your passion, not just a candle.” – Unknown
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.” – Mark Twain
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“It isn’t only a new year; it is a new chance for everyone to restart.” – Mohammed Sekouty
“New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.” – George William Curtis
“A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.” – Phil McGraw
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” – Hillary DePiano
“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.” – Edward Payson Powell
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” – Aberjhani
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. May you enjoy each day of your adventure. Happy New Year!” – Unknown
“The countdown has begun, and it’s the time to welcome the year with a fresh mind and soul.” – Unknown
“Approach the New Year with the resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” – Michael Josephson
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi
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“This New Year, may you be blessed with hope for better tomorrow, love to fill up your heart, warmth in your hearth, and happy smiles from your loved ones.” – Unknown
“A New Year is the chance to start over with a clean slate. Too bad my credit card won’t start over with a blank slate.” – Melanie White
“New Year’s is a time to better ourselves for a better world. Have a grand New Year!” – Unknown
“The new year is an opportunity to start with a clean slate of optimism and enthusiasm.” – Unknown
“Turn the page, don’t close the book. The best is yet to come.” – Unknown
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – Bill Vaughan
“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!” – Aleister Crowley
“One thing with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” – Michael Cibenko
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“This is the new year the new you. You can choose to pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before.” – Unknown
“It’s time to unfold new pages and start a new chapter in your life.” – Unknown
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” – Taylor Duvall
“As the year comes to an end, don’t look back at yesterday’s disappointment. Look ahead to God’s promises yet to unfold.” – Buky Ojelabi
“Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning.” – Joel Osteen
“Don’t wait for a new year to change your perspective. Get up and be proactive today!” – Tony Robbins
“A new year can begin only because the old year ends.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.” – Juansen Dizon
“It’s never too late to become who you want to be.” – George Eliot
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“The new year is your blank canvas; make a masterpiece of your life.” – Unknown
“Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“This New Year, may you make the attempt to trim and clean your Social Media accounts.” – Ian Wallace
“May you have no regrets leaving the old and may you get excited facing the new.” – Unknown
“Don’t forget the past; learn from it. Happy New Year.” – Unknown
“As this New Year approaches, find inspiration around you and motivation within you, to be all that you can be.” – Kate Summers
“Embrace the crests and troughs of your life with a smile. May the supreme force with you. Happy New Year.” – Unknown
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” – Tom Peters
“Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year.” – Melody Beattie
“May the New Year bring fresh bout of excellence to your life.” – Unknown
“The beginning is the most important part of any work.” – Plato
“The future is as bright as your faith.” – Thomas S. Monson
“And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“New Year, same me—because I’m already fabulous.” – Unknown
“A new year brings not only joys, but it makes us happy with a hope to satisfy our dream or maybe a new beginning of our life.” – Unknown
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson
“The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.” – Jonathan Huie
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“Welcome New Year… We look forward to you. A year of wonderful happiness. A year of good health. A year of great success. A year of incredibly good luck. A year of continuous fun. A year of world peace.” – Unknown
“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” – Brooks Atkinson
“New Year’s most glorious light is sweet hope!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.” – Unknown
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” – James Agate
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” – Anne Frank
“You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland
“You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” – Dr. Seuss
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” – Criss Jami
“New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” – Auliq Ice
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day?” – Scarlett Johansson
“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own.” – Peter De Vries
“The ending of year is also a time when serious people want real changes in their lives.” – Sereda Aleta Dailey
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
“Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” – Hillary DePiano
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Unknown
“This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.” – Unknown
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman
“Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding, and all of you were with me through the storm.” – Jeanette Winterson
“New Year’s cards from friends—colored patterns of my life.” – Mitsu Suzuki
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” – Hal Borland
“Resolve to make each day the beginning of a new year, a new morning, a new adventure.” – Wilfred Peterson
“And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Let go of what was and embrace what to be.” – Lailah Gifty Akit
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.” – Unknown
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” – Charles Kettering
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Shelley
“The New Year is a canvas. Paint it with the colors of your dreams.” – Unknown
“To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure.” – Ben Jonson
“May the New Year bring you warmth, love, and light to guide your path to a positive destination.” – Unknown
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” – Susan Sontag
“Let the old year end and the New Year begin with the warmest of aspirations. Happy New Year!” – Unknown
“I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” – Nick Frederickson
“We are the authors of our destinies. Make yours a bestseller this year.” – Unknown
“May your New Year be filled with adoration, happiness, warmth, and cheer; and may you pass on these to those around you too.” – Unknown
“Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“New Year’s Resolution: To simplify my life. Less time worrying about what I cannot control, more time enjoying the people I love.” – Unknown
“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.” – Ann Landers
“A year from now, you’re going to weigh more or less than what you do right now.” – Phil McGraw
“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.” – Irish Proverb
“May your New Year be filled with new adventures, accomplishments, and learnings!” – Unknown
“May all your dreams and wishes come true, and may prosperity touch your feet this New Year.” – Unknown
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“The start of every year takes you a step closer to the attainment of your dreams. Hope this year is the breakthrough one.” – Unknown
“May this New Year bring you much joy and fun. May you find peace, love, and success.” – Unknown
“Another fresh new year is here; another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give!” – William Arthur Ward
“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The New Year brings opportunities to stop and appreciate the simple things.” – Unknown
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
“The New Year means nothing if you’re still in love with your comfort zone.” – Unknown
“A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.” – L.J. Suenens
“May the 12 months of the New Year be full of new achievements for you.” – Unknown
“The greatest gifts you can give someone are your time, your love, and your attention. May this New Year bring you more of all three.” – Unknown
“The New Year is not about changing the dates but direction; it’s not about changing the calendar but commitment.” – Unknown
“May the New Year bring you gifts of joys, good health, and surprises.” – Unknown
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A new heart for a New Year, always!” – Charles Dickens
“Each New Year, we have before us a brand-new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year.” – Peggy Toney Horton
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
“Make way for the future. And the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“Every end marks a new beginning. Keep your spirits and determination unshaken, and you shall always walk the glory road.” – Unknown
“New Year, new you, new resolution, new change, a new beginning, new opportunities. Happy New Year to you!” – Unknown
“May this New Year equip you with good luck, good health, good fortune, and good times! Happy New Year!” – Unknown
“Wave a goodbye to the old and embrace the new full of hope, dream, and ambition.” – Unknown
“As the New Year approaches us with hopes anew, here is to wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead.” – Unknown
“New Year’s Day is the first page in a blank book: Write a phenomenal story.” – Unknown
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” – Joey Adams
“Let the dawn of the New Year’s first day be the beginning of a new era with an invisible Almighty’s blessings showered on everyone to be always true to their own first version.” – Anuj Somany
I hope these quotes help you as much as they’ve helped me.
They’re little reminders to keep pushing, keep dreaming, and keep being you.
Let’s make this New Year awesome.
Cheers to 2024!
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